Your new job starts on January 1..You have 9 months to compete 13 tasks

[SoCalDem]

How long would you have your job if you gallivanted all over the place until after Labor Day, and only had ONE task completed.. Fiscal year ends 9-30..

The 13 tasks you are assigned are all tasks that have to be agreed upon by 534 other people, and then approved by the "boss"..

Is it wise to wait until 25 days until the deadline to do all but one task?

This is what congress has been doing for YEARS..

They seriously need a MOM to stand over them and make them pace themselves. They need to get ONE task completed every 21 days or so, or they will not complete them on time.

Is it any wonder we end up with budget busting lame bills?

There is no excuse for this. We pay them well, give them primo benefits, excellent pensions, and all they want to do is 'go outside and play"..

I would like to see a rule set up that says this:

If they are behind on their task-completion, they do NOT leave for "vacations" or campaigning trips or fact-finding missions to St Kitts in February.

If they cannot do the job, or don't want to do the job, we need to find new people who WILL do the work.

[Faux pas]

1. We need to kick them all out and start from scratch. I got dibs

on being Queen of the World, k? :)

[SoCalDem]

4. You would do a better job, I'm sure..

I just cannot imagine any other occupation whre you can get so little accomplished, and get paid so much..and keep your job..

[Faux pas]

5. I would use a hell of a lot more common sense, that's for sure.

It's hard to believe that corporations are running the show. In the real business world they would have been fired after the first week. Amazing and sickening all at the same time.

[demnan]

2. An excellent post!

I agree why can't they at least develop good work habits? Not that I expect them to ever vote for my benefit for anything, but if you're going to cater to corporate greed, why doesn't the corporate world demand you do it more efficiently?

Puzzling, this.

[indepat]

3. Sadly the system seems to broken to be fixed: almost nothing is done to "promote

the general welfare," the fiscal irresponsibility, venality, and corruption just run too deep, almost the entire Federal establishment has politicized, the Constitution has largely been scrapped by executive, legislative, or judicial fiat, pre-emptive war and torture are a.o.k., and 97 senators have green-lighted the administration to attack Iran for which nobody possibly knows how that would play out. Sorry, 14th-generation-to-these-shores great grandson, you will most likely be growing up in an America that is no longer the land of the free and home of the brave or a beacon of liberty for the United States seems to have become a rogue superpower the United Nations was designed to thwart.

[Toots]

6. Just what "tasks" are you referring?

Is ending the Iraq Occupation one of those tasks? Or is one of the tasks naming a new airport? :shrug: